East Theatre at The Complex

 
Theatre
6476 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90038

Official Site
Seats: 50
Box Office Phone:
(323) 465-0383
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Open: Jun-18 2012
Close: Jun-20 2012

Black Swan Youth Theatre, in Portland, Oregon focuses on classical actor training for youth actors. Their production of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” has been a huge hit with audiences and local schools. The cast of nine actors ages 15-18 years, brilliantly portrays each character in this classic and witty Oscar Wilde play. Audiences are sure to love this madcap farce about mistake identities, secret engagements, and lovers’ entanglements.So, come see a hilarious play performed...
 
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Into the Torrent Sea
Open: Jun-10 2012
Close: Jun-24 2012

Into The Torrent Sea, The lost journal of Grace O’Malley, The Pirate Queen of Connaught. This is the story of Grace O’Malley a female Irish Pirate from the 1500’s. She is taking a journey on a ghost ship to meet with her enemy, Queen Elizabeth. This meeting historically took place when Grace was in her late 60’s. She continued her piracy into her 70’s. Performed by Sandra Caruso former professor theater dept. UCLA. Grace O’Malley is her ancestor.
 
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I Met Someone
Open: Jun-08 2012
Close: Jun-21 2012

Cheryl Francis Harrington’s one woman show, “I Met Someone” is about a woman’s winding escapades with the opposite sex. Cheryl’s lifelong search for true love in all the wrong places, takes us on a journey that begins in her mother’s Harlem living room. While taking us from one relationship to the next, seasoned by absentee fathers and a seemingly endless parade of disappointing dates, sewn together by years of self-help guru’s trying to assist Ms. Harrington in her struggle to find...
 
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Now That She's Gone
Open: Jun-27 2010
Close: Jun-27 2010

Nominated for a 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, “Now That She’s Gone” was first produced by EMP Theatricals, LLC, at the 2008 NY International Fringe Festival

Now That She’s Gone is a play that explores Ellen Snortland’s often hilarious, irreverent and sometimes torturous relationship with her Norwegian-American mother. Now That She’s Gone has been described as a Lily Tomlin / Garrison Keillor / Eve Ensler hybrid… passionate, poignant and funny in turns. A memoir piece with...
 
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Growing Up with Uncle Miltie
Open: Jun-24 2010
Close: Jun-26 2010

Written and performed by Patt Benson
Produced by K.G. Scott and Directed by Rich Embardo

As a girl growing up in New York City, Patt Benson dreamed of making it in show business. In her charming solo outing, “Growing Up With Uncle Miltie”, Benson recounts her arduous and interesting journey from Manhattan kid to Hollywood celebrity, with the help of Mr. Television himself, Milton Berle.

Funny, poignant and unquestionably pleasing. “Growing Up With Uncle Miltie”...
 
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Here's Hilda Vincent!
Open: Jun-24 2010
Close: Jun-26 2010

Hilarious, good fun! Hilda Vincent will have you rolling in the aisles with stories from her life – this stand-up routine will get you on your feet!
 
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Defending Against Eros: Three One Act Plays
Open: Jun-17 2010
Close: Jun-20 2010

What happens when you take a painting by Bouguereau, and ask three playwrights with completely different styles to write a one act inspired by the painting? You have Defending Against Eros: Three One Act Plays.

Eros, by Bryy Miller: Eros, Dionysus, Athena, and Phoebus are on a trip to the Getty Museum, at Eros’ request, to view the painting, “A Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros.” The events that transpire reveal the baggage and humanity that the gods carry with them.
 
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His Minute Hand
Open: Jun-17 2010
Close: Jun-27 2010

Stephen Kaliski’s HIS MINUTE HAND, a timely and riveting tragedy about the decay of friendship and family within a repressive society.

Officers Rip Lamplight and Charles Gawking play cards as they await the birth of Charles’ first son. Rip’s company seems genial, but the clock on their friendship is ticking: after the birth, Rip must exterminate Charles for permitting his wife to venture outside, a breach of their country’s new and inexplicable wartime law. At the same time, Rip’s...
 
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Sound & Fury's "Spaceship Man"
Open: Jun-17 2010
Close: Jun-27 2010

Major Cyrus “Cy” Fie must come out of retirement to travel to Mars and stop a potential invasion! A parody of 1930’s-1950’s Science-Fiction movies, in the signature Sound & Fury style: Vaudeville-Nouveau! Full of song, silliness and sex…ual innuendo!

L.A.-based Sound & Fury return home to premiere their latest farce before inflicting it upon the Winnipeg, Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringes. It is the 8th in a series of world-touring shows they’ve written, which include the award-winning...